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Ex-DVD company employee gets 4 years for leaking Spider-Man Blu-ray | Man agreed to return more than 1,000 stolen DVDs to his former employer.
Man agreed to return more than 1,000 stolen DVDs to his former employer.
It was in this climate that Hale bypassed DRM encryption, which prevents copying, to rip that movie from the Blu-ray disc, selling the high-quality leak online amidst a sea of inferior bootlegs, more than a month before fans could access it legally. Ultimately, Hale pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement, while agreeing to pay restitution (the exact amount is not clarified in the release) and return "approximately 1,160 stolen DVDs and Blu-rays" that the cops seized to his former employer. In the DOJ's press release, acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti claimed the win, while warning that "today’s sentencing signals our commitment to protecting American innovation from pirates that would exploit others’ work for a quick profit, which, in this case, cost one copyright owner tens of millions of dollars.”
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